[PATCH] drm/msm: remove python 3.9 dependency for compiling msm

[Thierry Reding]

On Wed May 8, 2024 at 1:04 AM CEST, Abhinav Kumar wrote:
> Since commit 5acf49119630 ("drm/msm: import gen_header.py script from Mesa"),
> compilation is broken on machines having python versions older than 3.9
> due to dependency on argparse.BooleanOptionalAction.
>
> Switch to use simple bool for the validate flag to remove the dependency.
>
> Fixes: 5acf49119630 ("drm/msm: import gen_header.py script from Mesa")
> Signed-off-by: Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk at quicinc.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/registers/gen_header.py | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Irrespective of whether we want to allow Python as a build dependency or
not, it already is since v6.10-rc1, so in the meantime I'm going to
apply this to drm-misc-fixes to unbreak things.

If we decide that we don't want the extra dependency we need revert the
whole generation infrastructure.

Thierry
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